“Oh my! This is the real life version of a brave knight fighting against the evil dragon!” Baelin shot a glance at Jenny behind him, and then took a look at how much life essence he had left, a helpless smile about his lips.
*Whoosh!*
A black figure constantly attacked the Earth Dragon, and everyone else could only see the dust flying at the centre of the site, as well as the constant howls from the dragon.
Under the immense pressure from the Earth Dragon, Baelin felt all that Lord Leylin had forced him to learn suddenly bursting out as he became more proficient at some techniques.
At this moment, he suddenly felt empty, as if he had lost all of the power he just had.
“The burst of power from the secret technique is used up, and my life essence has been exhausted!”
Baelin’s heart sank, and a black shadow like a steel mace pierced through the armour of light, mercilessly slamming on his chest.
*Ka-cha!* The steel armour caved in, and Baelin flew backwards, a large amount of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
“No!”
At the moment he was about to die, he seemed to see the gigantic shadow of the Earth Dragon, as well as heard a sorrowful wail.
“What a short life! However, I have no more regrets!”
With a gentle smile, he froze into his image of Jenny crying hard while on the ground into his memory.
“How can my student die in such a pointless way?”
Just as Baelin was about to fall unconscious, time seemed to stop, and his surroundings turned black and white. His body seemed to be stuck in mid-air.
“It’s Lord Leylin’s voice! He’s finally acknowledged me as his student!” Baelin was overjoyed, his thoughts on this while he was on the verge of death.
Next, he felt the steel sword on his right hand constantly becoming warmer till it became burning hot as if he was holding a soldering iron.
*Weng Weng!* The sword constantly shook, and a crimson rune appeared on its own accord on the blade.
“Ahh!”
Baelin felt a stream of heat being transmitted from the steel sword, rushing to his lower abdomen where his life essence was congregated.
*Bang!* Like the sound of a bottle exploding, the bottleneck to becoming a Grand Knight — the issue which had been bothering Baelin for a long period of time — was crossed!
Life energy that was at least ten times more powerful than before congregated from the life essence at his lower abdomen, and flowed through Baelin’s limbs.
“Shaaa!”
Baelin held his sword and slashed forward. On the surface of the steel sword, red rays from the rune suddenly brightened, and the sheen from a sword streaked through the sky, appearing in front of the Earth Dragon.
Under the black and white rays that had frozen time, the Earth Dragon was motionless, allowing Baelin to aim a slash at its neck.
*Whoosh!*
A cold wind blew, and the black and white faded, returning to the usual colourful world.
*Ka-cha!*
A fine red line appeared at the Earth Dragon’s neck.
This line began to spread till it covered the entire neck, and then reddish-green blood constantly flowed out, the gigantic head of the beast fell to the ground.
*Rumble!* After losing its head, the huge body of the Goat-Horned Earth Dragon crashed to the ground, like a little earthquake, causing a large amount of dust to fly.
“What happened to him?” Jenny felt a little dizzy.
“He broke through! He broke through the bottleneck of a Grand Knight!” James mumbled to himself, and then helped Jenny up.
“Haha, I knew I was a genius! How could I just die like this!”
Baelin, who had escaped death, patted his chest and began to laugh.
Seeing him in this state, Jenny felt there was a fire in her chest, almost causing it to explode.
“You idiot!” Jenny threw a white handkerchief at Baelin’s face. Leaving him alone, she entered the cave with James.
“Why is she being like this?” Baelin held the handkerchief in a daze, bewildered.
The surviving mercenaries and adventurers silently cleaned the area.
They had lost a lot of people, and many of them were their friends or even family!
It was very quiet on the battlefield, and not one animal came to disturb the silence.
The sun’s rays were extremely annoying for the beings that were used to the darkness. Potter Town of Twilight Zone had made use of this aversion and used the sun stones to disperse the creatures of darkness, and could thus develop.
James had considered this at the beginning when he threw out the sun stones.
Ten minutes later, Jenny and James came out with excitement.
“Is this the Dragon-Blooded Flower Bud?”
Baelin noticed the plant that seemed like a flower in Jenny’s hands.
This red flower was the size of a bowl, and there were webs that seemed like blood vessels and veins on the petals. It looked very bizarre.
Jenny carefully held the flower bud, as if she were holding some treasure that was as valuable as a city.